I will give you just one thought to dwell on. Since this is new to you, give it some time. I don't think you will find it in any book. This has to do with perceptions, not measurements.

When you hear an orchestra play a note at 100 db in a concert hall and it sounds like it is coming from 40 feet away, and that note takes 4 seconds to die out because the sound is filling a 400,000 cubic foot room, your brain concludes that it is a very powerful source of sound.

When you hear a recording of that same orchestra playing the same note at 100 db from speakers in your home and it sounds like it is 8 feet away, and that note takes about 1/2 second to die out when it is only filling a 4000 cubic foot room, your brain concludes that it is a far less powerful source of sound.

No speaker, no sound system, no cable, no matter how accurate in the sense we are accostomed to judging it by, can overcome that vast difference. The primitive technology we use to record and reproduce sound has omitted over 95% of what was heard in the live experience. And NO, binaural recordng is not a satisfactory means of recovering that difference for the reason I already explained.

Come back in six months and if you begin to see the validity of this conclusion, perhaps I will discuss some of the others I presented you with that you were so quick to dismiss as jibberish.